Based on reports from local observers, I have recovered the carcasses of 10
dead crows this week: five from Ithaca College grounds and five from the Wood
St - Titus Towers park area. This is a disturbing number of dead crows.
We lost a lot of crows in the past two summers to West Nile virus (may
A couple days ago I saw a dead crow under some pines beside Pleasant Grove
Road.
I don't know whether it got hit by a car, or fell from a tree. or what. I
called Kevin McGowan
and hope he had time to collect it because I didn't. I'm curious why it died,
and wonder if
yours was similar.
